Export a PRN file in Excel

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I have an excel spreadsheet with columns A - AC and I need to save it
in formatted text space delimited. When I do save as and select
formatted text space delimited the file wraps at 255 characters. Is
there anyway to get around this? I need the entire row to be on one
line followed by the next row on the next line.
 
(.prn files will wrap after 240 characters)

You have a few choices (try against a copy of your worksheet):

I'd either concatenate the cell values into another column:

=LEFT(A1&REPT(" ",20),20) & LEFT(B1&REPT(" ",10),10) & TEXT(C1,"000,000.00")

Then I'd copy and paste to notepad and save from there. Once I figured out that
ugly formula, I kept it and just unhide that column when I wanted to export the
data.

If that doesn't work for you, maybe you could do it with a macro.

Here's a link that provides a macro:
http://google.com/[email protected]
 
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